Nice to see that the little safety walk and meeting with cops yesterday made a big impact. Still no police in our neighborhood! They respond quickly, but you never see them patrolling.

districtwanderer

Everything is in the eye of the beholder, but I totally agree. I just moved from this part of the Hill, where I lived for 5 years, and never once did I see a police foot patrol in the neighborhood. I now live a couple of blocks north of Lincoln Park in NE–only a mile away!– and in the past 10 days I have THRICE seen cops patrolling on foot. The SE part of Hill East is inexplicably neglected.

4490

I was a foot patrol in that area in 2012 and a regular at 15th and Independence during the day and part of the evening shift. If you didn’t see me, you probably work too much.

JC

DCPD twitter says this was a gun. Regardless, this kind of stuff is happening way to often. And this time at 1030am!?!?

anomonous

bayonet?

Anon

I know one of the witnesses to the robbery and he said the ambulance took at least 20 minutes to respond. Pathetic.

anonymous

If that’s true, it confirms what I’ve been thinking all along here- you’re ultimately on your own in this city. Twenty minutes, if accurate, is absolutely unacceptable and borderline criminal when you have people’s lives on the line.

west_egg

Abysmal response times are par for the course. DC FEMS is in shambles.

tom

Ugh.. just got done reading about the man tased and robbed in shaw

HillEast

that whole block is terrible. i’m sure the dudes who hang in the alley slinging drugs and playing dice all day had nothing to do with it.